[olug] What's the value of your $PS1 variable?

Christopher Cashell topher-olug at zyp.org
Thu Jan 22 17:47:21 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Adam Haeder <adamh at aiminstitute.org> wrote:
> or, what does your prompt look like?

I use:

GREEN="\[\e[32;1m\]"
DGRAY="\[\e[1;30m\]"
VIOLET="\[\e[0;35m\]"
BWHITE="\[\e[1;37m\]"
DCOLOR="\[\e[m\]"
PS1="$GREEN\u$DGRAY@$GREEN\h:$VIOLET\w$BWHITE\$ $DCOLOR"

Which gives me:

if $PWD==$HOME:    cpcashell at crucible:~$

and

if $PWD==/tmp:    cpcashell at crucible:/tmp$

Except it's also colored.  I originally had the color codes inline,
but it was a pain to remember what color was what and where, so I
changed it to the above.

> --
> Adam Haeder

-- 
Christopher



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